Rinat Dasayev

Rinat Dasayev

Personal information
Full name	Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev
Date of birth	(1957-06-13) June 13, 1957
Place of birth	Astrakhan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Torpedo Moscow (Goalkeeper Coach)
Youth career
1975	Volgar Astrakhan
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1976–1977	Volgar Astrakhan	26	(0)
1977–1988	Spartak Moscow	335	(0)
1988–1991	Sevilla	59	(0)
Total		420	(0)
National team
1979–1990	Soviet Union	91	(0)
Teams managed
2003–2005	Russia (assistant)
2007–2008	Torpedo Moscow (assistant)
2012–	Torpedo Moscow (Goalkeeper Coach)
Honours Competitor for Soviet Union Men's Football Bronze 1980 Moscow Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

This name uses Eastern/Southern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Fayzrakhmanovich and the family name is Dasayev.

Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev (Russian: Ринат Файзрахманович Дасаев, Tatar: Rinat Faizrahman uly Dasaev; born June 13, 1957 in Astrakhan, Russian SFSR) is a Russian former football goalkeeper of Tatar ethnicity, who played in three World Cups with the Soviet national team. He is considered the second best Russian goalkeeper ever behind Lev Yashin, and one of the best in the world in the 1980s. He was awarded the title of the World’s Best Goalkeeper of the Year award in 1988 by the IFFHS. In 2004, he was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers.

Dasayev, nicknamed “The Iron Curtain” and "The Cat", was a goalkeeper for the Russian football club Spartak Moscow during most of the 1980s. He won the Soviet championship in 1979 and 1987 and was named Best Soviet Goalkeeper by Ogonyok (Огонëк) magazine in 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988. In 1982 he was named Soviet Footballer of the Year. Dasayev played for the Soviet national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal. He appeared in the 1982, 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups, as well as the Euro 88 (where the Soviet Union lost the final and Dasayev was powerless to stop Marco van Basten's legendary volley). In total, he was capped 91 times from 1979 to 1990, being the second-most capped player ever for the Soviet Union.

After his contract ran out with the Spanish club Sevilla FC in the early 1990s, Dasayev retired from the sport.

He was appointed as the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final Ambassador.

Honours

Club

• Spartak Moscow
  • Soviet Top League: 1979, 1987, Winner
  • Soviet Top League: 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, Runner-up
  • Soviet Cup: 1981, Runner-up

Country

• Soviet Union
  • UEFA European Football Championship: 1988, Runner-up

FIFA World Cup 2018 bid

Dasayev (first from left in the back row) celebrates winning the World Cup bid with Andrei Arshavin (center) and others

Dasayev was a member of Russia's bid committee to hold 2018 FIFA World Cup, which Russia won.